I could have done without the "any stranger can run foreign code on my machine" bit, personally. I'm OK with doing away with Javascript forever, along with the whole "my computer just randomly downloads binary code silently in the background at intervals of its choosing" (aka "critical updates") that then becomes seen as a necessity.

Nobody needed constant code updates streaming to their PC in the BBS days when it was just ANSI or RipScript over a TTY. With complicated HTML/XML parsers the game started changing. Then Javascript came along and opened the posterior doors wide open.